Quotes About Stereotypes

Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.

Only Americans smile all the time.

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

Let me guess, Seven said last night. The first was a rebound. The second was married. How'd you know? He laughed. Because you're a cliché.

It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don't like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn't speak that language. They didn't learn it as children and they didn't manage to pick it up as adults, either.

Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it. Who

every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

He wandered off, leaving me to wonder why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience—names they could never live up to—and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation—crosses they'd always have to bear.

Do you have kids? Anna asks. I laugh. What do you think? It's probably a good thing, she admits. No offense, but you don't exactly look like a parent. That fascinates me. What do parents look like? She seems to think about this. You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that.

We're conditioned to seeing men holding guns, but not men holding hands.

then unleashed Stargate's 18 sex-starved men on our women, compliant and promiscuous by military custom and law...

It's different for girls.

But you know how women are.  They're not happy unless they're complaining about something.

While traveling in this highly idiosyncratic country, it became clear to me that the Scots did not like the English.

I see it routinely when I get asked to speak at conferences. I'm supposed to come cheap because, after all, I'm just a farmer. If you're smart and capable, you become a doctor, engineer, lawyer, computer technician --- anything white collar. For goodness' sake, don't wear a blue collar. That makes your mother and me a failure and our friends will wonder about our family.

I am like the Census," he said, "broken down by age, sex and religion.

The women are always the whores; the priests are always the good men who were led astray.

What you know about women," replied Maude, "could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer. For all your

The only thing I'd tell Maude, if she was here, is that she runs the risk of sounding a little anti-man at times, don't you agree? All the husbands in her novels are stupid, insensitive, faithless individuals with murky pasts, empty heads, micro-penises and questionable morals. But I suppose she had a good imagination, as all writers must, and she was simply making things up.

What you know about women,' replied Maude, 'could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer.